Sign in / up

back to article Microsoft dumps Metro from Windows 8

Microsoft has dropped "Metro", the name given to the squaretastic user interface for Windows 8 and Windows Phone, claiming it was just a code name all along. Litigation, though, may be the real reason as it seems the word may be owned by a European company or individual that objected to its use. The change comes late in the …

COMMENTS

House rules Send corrections
This topic is closed for new posts.

Page:

    1. Richard Wharram
      Reply Icon
      Thumb Up

      Perhaps

      Grid Oriented Application Tablet Second Edition

      43 0
      1. TeeCee Gold badge
        Reply Icon
        Coat

        Nah. It has to be "Hangover".

        The inevitable result of a night on the tiles.......

        2 0
        1. Anonymous Coward
          Reply Icon
          Anonymous Coward

          or "gravypants"

          0 0
  2. Richard Wharram
    Flame

    I suggest

    Given it's signature is a lack of 3D skuemorphistic elements it appears essentially flat. So...

    Flat OS

    or Flatus.

    (flame is a lit flatus)

    15 0
    1. Lord Voldemortgage
      Reply Icon

      Classic.

      1 0
  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I so nearly jumped with joy.

    Alas, the headline was deliberately there to sink my Friday afternoon.

    "Microsoft 'The awful piece of karp known as Metro (tm pending Apple approval)'" will still be there, they're just calling it something else.

    4 0
  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    An advertising agency has got the contract.

    Because of the hands on mechanism of the tablet, they're calling it Clap UI.

    (I got this straight from my friend Hua Chen Ya at the Yokamushi design agency.)

    6 0
  5. AndrueC Silver badge
    Joke

    How about "Windows None" :)

    2 0
  6. Paul Shirley

    how long has WinPhone been shipping with Metro?

    ...but haven't they had a Metro product out for a year or so? Or did I just imagine frequent use of Metro when discussing WP7 (possible since the actual phones seem pretty imaginary in real life ;)

    4 0
    1. h4rm0ny
      Reply Icon

      Re: how long has WinPhone been shipping with Metro?

      WP7 interface was never called Metro officially - that's always been the GUI for WIn8. It's just that many kept calling it 'Metro' because of the tiles. Incorrectly really as FKAM is also the APIs and other features that weren't in WP7.

      1 2
      1. Brian
        Reply Icon
        WTF?

        Re: how long has WinPhone been shipping with Metro?

        MS has been calling the UI Design 'Metro' since Zune, XBox, and even Media Center.. it certainly isn't a new name just for Windows 8.

        3 0
      2. Ian Johnston Silver badge
        Reply Icon
        Thumb Up

        Re: how long has WinPhone been shipping with Metro?

        FKAM - pronounced "fuck 'em" - seems like the perfect solution.

        1 0
    2. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Windows

      @Paul

      The official name for the start screen has always been "Live Tiles" or 'tiles'. So no problems there.

      0 0
  7. David Austin

    So metro is no longer Metro, and Aero is no longer Aero. Nice one, Microsoft.

    5 0
    1. Elmer Phud
      Reply Icon

      No problems for the early release people - W8SP1 will be in its way soon.

      1 0
    2. Spiracle
      Reply Icon

      So the phone version is no longer the Mini Metro interface. Disappointing.

      2 0
    3. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Anonymous Coward

      ...and soon...

      Microsoft could be no longer, too...

      2 0
  8. uhuznaa

    Epic fail

    Metro was a nice, catchy name. Not checking for trademarks and coming to some agreement with others holding that trademark before naming the fscking software is just... unprofessional.

    I'm really curios if MS has been more careful with checking for other trademarks and patents in Windows 8 or if the thing will be shot down within a week.

    9 0
    1. Captain Underpants
      Reply Icon

      Re: Epic fail

      I will break my hole laughing if someone else has managed to trademark "Windows 8" in relation to computing :D

      2 0
    2. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Stop

      Re: Epic fail

      "Metro" IS not a nice catchy name....

      It fucking sucks... like a battery converted shopping trolly becomes a green electric eco friendly car kind of sucks.

      It's like being 14 and finding someone has put a hand full of sand in your jar of Vaseline....

      It's just fucking TRAGIC - that's that the name "Metro" is...

      Copyrighting that name? Metro has always been used as an abreviation of Metropolis.... and spewed forth as a trendy conjunctive like Metrosexual or something...

      Or as descripitive terms for "city" type transport..... "The Met"

      Quick a new name and an catchy abbreviation for it.... I know - "People Over Xs" or POX for short.

      Hmm back to the sandy Vaseline....

      1 7
      1. AndrueC Silver badge
        Reply Icon
        Joke

        Re: Epic fail

        >"Metro" IS not a nice catchy name....

        It made me think of metrosexual for some reason :)

        1 0
      2. Rodrigo Rollan
        Reply Icon
        Coffee/keyboard

        Re: Epic fail

        I just read your post with Fat Bastard's voice in my head (fat Scottish stereotype, Austin Powers Character).....Brilliant

        1 0
    3. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Joke

      Re: Epic fail

      "Not checking for trademarks and coming to some agreement with others holding that trademark before naming the fscking software is just... unprofessional."

      Now don't be mean here. MS had promised this company a /free/ copy of WIn8, its not their fault that this company doesn't want anything to do with it.

      0 0
  9. c2423

    How about "Windows: Last Edition"?

    13 0
    1. LinkOfHyrule
      Reply Icon
      Joke

      I've got it...

      Windows 8 | Judgement Day

      3 0
  10. TheOtherHobbes

    Windows: Cult of the Dead Horse

    So no one in Legal checked?

    Could happen to anyone, I guess.

    3 0
  11. Gottapulse
    FAIL

    How about Simple Simon after the "toy" of a couple of decades ago?

    3 0
    1. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Anonymous Coward

      err

      It was called Simon, simple Simon was a nursery rhyme.

      0 0
  12. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
    Pint

    The obvious

    Windows 'Flatline' Edition. That's what most people here think that it is going to do in sales.

    Time for a beer and to watch some Olympics methinks.

    9 0
  13. Uncle Slacky Silver badge
    Go

    "Polished Turd"

    As title...

    6 0
    1. Tank boy
      Reply Icon
      Pint

      Re: "Polished Turd"

      Brilliant! I was thinking of something more wordy.

      Windows 8: Sucks less than Vista!

      or

      Windows 8: We'll get it right by service Pack 3 (maybe 4)

      And

      Windows 8: Aw fuck it, you're going to have to buy this crap anyway.

      3 0
    2. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Anonymous Coward

      Could the late Ian Dury have the answer?

      "Hello Mrs Wood, this GUI looks familiar, they used to call it Windows 8 Metro.

      Now it's Windows Fucking Shit Cunt"

      0 1
  14. Knochen Brittle
    Happy

    all the below are free

    iRape, iRate, iNchoate, FacePunch, DeskDeth, DoomSkeem, NutCramp, HeadLock, HelpCry, Ballmer'sRevenge, AversionTherapy and WTF?

    1 0
    1. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: all the below are free

      Windows Tablet Format?

      5 0
      1. Albert Hall
        Reply Icon

        Win WTF...

        Yes, it fits!

        Alternately, how 'bout Win L7... square enough?

        0 0
        1. Havin_it
          Reply Icon
          Pint

          Re: Win WTF...

          I'll have that. Puts me in mind of "Pretend We're Dead"*, which is never a bad thing. Can the tagline be "Here's a used tampon, motherf*ckers"? Seems to fit.

          *...and you'll be able to accurately guess how many licences we're gonna buy, Mr Ballmer..

          0 0
  15. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Windows For Kids 3.11

    How about that, as clearly Metro is so dumbed down, the applets it runs are no use for anything other than a simple childrens game.

    3 0
  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    In my opinion

    They should call it Windows Elbee....

    ...as in LB (lead balloon).

    P.S. Thanks for getting my hopes up with the headline guys. Bastards.

    3 0
    1. Allan George Dyer
      Reply Icon
      Alert

      Re: In my opinion

      I initially read Elbee as Ebola.

      Hey, that's got a nice ring to it:

      Windows Ebola - Giving Killer App a New Meaning!

      (Hmph, no biohaz icon)

      0 0
  17. Peter 39

    simple

    Just call it "Square".

    2 0
  18. hplasm
    Happy

    Well-

    Abomin8.

    8 0
  19. Tom 38

    Windows Vista 2.0

    6 1
    1. Kyoraki
      Reply Icon

      Surely you mean Windows ME version 3?

      1 0
      1. Captain DaFt
        Reply Icon

        Might as well go for the whole hog then... Bob 4.0

        0 0
  20. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    How about Windows "Maestro"

    Or, as per the original naming ethos, there's always "Montego", "Maxi" or if we want to go a little earlier in the alphabet, "Allegro"...

    4 0
    1. Anonymous Coward
      Reply Icon
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: How about Windows "Maestro"

      "Allegro" wins the day. Whatever could go wrong if we make everything square?...

      4 0
      1. Anonymous Coward
        Reply Icon
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: How about Windows "Maestro"

        *Snigger*

        I'd forgotten about that classic bit of steering wheel design...

        0 0
      2. Anomalous Cowturd
        Reply Icon
        WTF?

        Re: "Allegro" wins the day."

        Don't laugh, but I had an "All-aggro" way back in the 80s, and it was a very comfortable, (hydrogas suspension) nippy, (I had the 1.6) car. The slightly squared off, or was that rounded square? steering wheel was actually fine to use. (Mine was leather too.)

        It did use about half a gallon of oil every week, and obviously smoked like a trooper, but good while it lasted... :o)

        Agreed about Leyland cars generally though. They really were shit.

        AC, for obvious reasons!

        1 0
  21. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Windows Appledroid anyone?

    0 0

  22. This post has been deleted by its author

Page:

This topic is closed for new posts.

Other stories you might like